{"id":152319,"date":"2024-01-24T08:15:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T13:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=152319"},"modified":"2024-01-23T16:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T21:08:45","slug":"man-charged-for-his-role-in-capitol-riot-was-previously-court-martialed-for-manslaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=152319","title":{"rendered":"Man charged for his role in Capitol riot was previously court-martialed for manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pepe-the-Frog-as-Soldier-with-night-vision.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-152320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pepe-the-Frog-as-Soldier-with-night-vision-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pepe-the-Frog-as-Soldier-with-night-vision-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pepe-the-Frog-as-Soldier-with-night-vision-348x333.jpg 348w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pepe-the-Frog-as-Soldier-with-night-vision.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edward Richmond Jr., 40, was charged for assaulting a Capitol police officer repeatedly during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. This was not his first rodeo with the law. Richmond was deployed to Iraq in 2004 when he shot and killed a handcuffed Iraqi civilian. He was tried and convicted for this killing. Richmond subsequently received a dishonorable discharge from the Army.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From The Associated Press:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Richmond was 20 when an Army court-martial panel convicted him of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced him to three years in prison for killing the handcuffed Iraqi civilian near Taal Al Jai in February 2004. Richmond also received a dishonorable discharge from the Army.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond initially was charged with unpremeditated murder, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. But the panel of five officers and five enlisted soldiers reduced the charge to voluntary manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>The Army said Richmond shot Muhamad Husain Kadir, a cow herder, in the back of the head from about six feet away after the man stumbled. Richmond testified that he didn&#8217;t know Kadir was handcuffed and believed the Iraqi man was going to harm a fellow soldier.<\/p>\n<p>During the Jan. 6 riot, body camera footage captured Richmond repeatedly assaulting police officers with a black baton in a tunnel on the Capitol&#8217;s Lower West Terrace, the FBI said. Police struggled for hours to stop the mob of Donald Trump supporters from entering the Capitol through the same tunnel entrance.<\/p>\n<p>A witness helped the FBI identify Richmond as somebody who had traveled to Washington, D.C., with several other people to serve as a &#8220;security team&#8221; for the witness for rallies planned for Jan. 6, according to the agent&#8217;s affidavit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Associated Press has more information <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/edward-richmond-manslaughter-iraq-capitol-riot-adff1bfd6c80cd7316a97f3f5f7dc06e\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Richmond Jr., 40, was charged for assaulting a Capitol police officer repeatedly during the January &hellip; <a title=\"Man charged for his role in Capitol riot was previously court-martialed for manslaughter\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=152319\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man charged for his role in Capitol riot was previously court-martialed for manslaughter<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,84,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-military-issues","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}